Lucia Wooding
Woodcula

 

Lucia Wooding is a multidisciplinary artist born, raised and based in the home of heavy metal (Birmingham, England). She experiments with a vast range of media- sculpture, installation, painting, drawing and interactive play. Lucia is a neurodivergent woman who explores her alternativeness and feelings of otherness through a concoction of playful and macabre imagery.

 

With painting and drawing, she externalises her inner turmoil through abstract hellscapes, in which her self-made characters (The Seraph and alter-ego) reside within. Through sculpture and installation, Lucia invites audiences to interact with her neurodivergence, giving them a glimpse into her identity. The range of media Lucia plays with allows viewers to gaze at the complexities, both the beauties and horrors, of living with her disabilities.

 

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The self-made characters act as a vehicle for self-exploration. The alter-ego exists as Lucia’s mirror image who’s progressively being exposed to Lucia’s neurodivergent qualities. The Seraph is an omnipresent entity representing her neurodivergence, and an experimenter that projects said qualities onto the alter-ego- corrupting the alter-ego, but liberating Lucia.

 

By working with materials such as graphite, wood, and plastics, Lucia’s able to physically interact with what fundamentally forms her identity. Wood relating to her maiden name and spirituality, with plastics to explore notions of imposter syndrome that come with her neurodivergence. Additionally, graphite assists in representing Lucias unlearning of black and white thinking, and development of grey thinking.